Haystack Murder Trial Record, 1890

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Haystack Murder Trial Record, 1890

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The Haystack Murder Trial Record, 1890, is a typscript brief written by Samuel N. Wood, counsel for the government and founder of Woodsdale, Kansas, for the Supreme Court case United States v. C. E. Cook, Orin Cook, Capt. C. E. Frease, Johnnie Jackson, Ed Boudin, John Colbert, et al.

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United States. Supreme Court

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Supreme Court of the United States, final court of appeal and final expositor of the Constitution of the United States. Within the framework of litigation, the Supreme Court marks the boundaries of authority between state and nation, state and state, and government and citizen. Scope And Jurisdiction The Supreme Court was created by the Constitutional Convention of 1787 as the head of a federal court system, though it was not formally established until Congress passed the Judiciary Act in 17...

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Wood, S. N. (Samuel Newitt)

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Samuel Newitt Wood was born into a Quaker family at Mount Gilead, Ohio on 30 December 1825. From an early age, Wood interested himself in politics and in the abolitionist cause, acting as a conductor on the underground railroad. It was in this endeavor that he met his future wife, Margaret Walker Lyon, with whom he had four children. After teaching and reading law, he was admitted to the bar in 1854. That same year, Wood and his wife headed to Kansas in the name of the free state cause; Wood set...